Wednesday, 21 September 2011

Yellow fever vaccine modified to fight Malaria

Malaria is one of the worst health crises in developing countries. It spread by mosquito bites and It’s been known since 1960s
There is no vaccine for malaria, millions of people died and kill a child every 30 seconds. But we can make a change in our life with a new discovered from The Rockefeller University; they have transformed the yellow fever vaccine to prime the immune system to fend off the mosquito borne parasites that cause the disease.
One form of the malaria parasite is called sporozoites, it can wake the immune system which can help to protect against further infection.


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100611222839.htm

4 comments:

  1. Great info. U've not given any key points or even a summary explaining wat it's about.

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  2. Why is this a global problem? we dont have many mosquitos here in belgium... and even if we do get bitten, we dont get malaria...

    is it such a big deal?
    Why? or Why not?

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  3. Nice, but you should cut down words and add some bullet points

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  4. its an interesting article... how will this help the global problem?

    do you think there is anything that might stop this new drug getting to the people who need it?

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